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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internet service providing-which OS?
Date: 24 Jul 1995 11:16:26 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.epfl.ch> wrote:
>In article <3ul4g2$i6n@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
>J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>> Btw., the shortest time between crashes on an SGI has been < 1 hour.
>
>What on earth have you been doing with that poor machine ? I've had a
>4D 70GT (R2000, 16 MB RAM, IRIX 4.x) which reliably survived hundreds
>of days of (heavy) use. My experience with IRIX is about the contrary
>of yours: I consider it one of the best comercially available UNIX
>systems.
First: you've got IRIX 4, we've got IRIX 5. The latter is considered
to be one of the greater software desasters of this century. There's
been a SGI-internal memo floating around some time ago, and i think
Silicon Graphics didn't do much more errors than a lot of other
software companies in the world (including the one of my current
employer :).
But the most fragile thing has been their ISDN product. It has been
released already with a big delay, and it's something FreeBSD wouldn't
give out as ALPHA state software. In FreeBSD, it might have been put
under /xperimnt, but nowhere else. It's instable, not reliably
working at all, and it rapidly eats up all available kernel memory.
Having 48 MB out of 64 consumed by the kernel after one week of uptime
(for a machine that's doing nothing else than acting as an ISDN
router) is the usual way to go...
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)